GeForce RTX 3050 will be configured with 8GB of video memory
In the past period of time, the focus of Nvidia and AMD in the graphics card market has been on the mid-to-high-end market, and GPU updates in the mid-to-low-end market are relatively slow. As Nvidia and AMD have basically completed their layout in the mid-to-high-end graphics card market, and Intel Arc Alchemist graphics cards are about to be released, the mid-to-low-end graphics card market will soon usher in a long-lost update and start a new round of competition.
According to Twitter user @kopite7kimi, GeForce RTX 3050 will use GA106-150-Kx-A1, equipped with 8GB of GDDR6 video memory, and will probably be launched in the second quarter of 2022. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 will have 3072 CUDA cores, which is basically the same as the previously rumored GeForce RTX 3050 Ti specifications. If the specifications of the GeForce RTX 3050 are improved, then how to configure the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti is also an interesting question, but there is no news in this regard for the time being.
According to Nvidia, the performance of GeForce RTX 3050 will be stronger than GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER, but still lower than the upcoming GeForce RTX 2060 12GB version. It is rumored that Intel’s entry-level Alchemist graphics card (Xe-HPG 128EU/Arc A380) competitor is GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER with a core frequency of 2.45 GHz and will be equipped with 6GB of GDDR6 memory. It will also be released in the second quarter of 2022.
In addition, AMD will further expand its Radeon RX 6000 series product line in the first quarter of 2022, launching an entry-level graphics card based on Navi 24 core. The AMD Radeon RX 6500 series rivals the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 series and Intel’s entry-level ARC brand graphics card. It is said that its core frequency will reach 2.8 GHz or above, with 16 CUs, 1024 stream processors, 16MB unlimited cache, 1MB L2 cache, and 128KB L1 cache, the memory width is 64 bits, equipped with 4GB GDDR6 memory, the rate is 14 Gbps. Compared to Nvidia and Intel’s products, which have a larger video memory configuration, AMD’s 4GB video memory is not enough.
